Best Design Events: FIAC 2014!

Held under the soaring glass roof of the Grand Palais, seasoned collectors and first time visitors come from all over the world to look at and invest in the work of important modern and contemporaryartists. Top international galleries from all over the world present work by up-and-comingartists at FIAC. Everyone who’s anyone in theart world will be present, as this is a true tastemaker’s event, a place to spot the next greatest talent and perhaps invest in some artwork.

Grand Palais Paris

191 galleries—including Beijing’s Vitamin Creative Space; Paris’s Galerie Perrotin, Galerie Le Minotaure, and Yvon Lambert; and New York’s Gagosian Gallery, Luhring Augustine, and David Zwirner—will exhibit work by art world power players. And outdoor installations are scattered around the Jardin des Tuileries (also host to a temporary shipping-container cinema), in the Jardin des Plantes, on the banks of the Seine, and in Place Vendôme (though Paul McCarthy’s controversial and recently vandalized Tree sculpture will not remain inflated there).

FIAC 2014

While FIAC ranks among the oldest and most prestigious art fairs in the world, new sister fair (OFF)icielle (October 22–26) is more inclusive of emerging, lesser-known galleries. Appropriately, it will be housed in a decidedly younger landmark, Cité de la Mode et du Design, on the eastern end of the Seine, characterized by the transparent lime-green corridor snaking along the exterior.

Complementing the fair, displays, stalls andexhibitions around the city as well as a series of events are held in parallel with the FIAC. These allow the public to take a closer look at the latest offerings from the world of modern and contemporary art.